List of Famous people who born in 1947

Marquess of Tweeddale is a title of the Peerage of Scotland, created in 1694 for the 2nd Earl of Tweeddale. Lord Tweeddale holds the subsidiary titles of Earl of Tweeddale, Earl of Gifford (1694), Viscount of Walden (1694), Lord Hay of Yester (1488), and Baron Tweeddale, of Yester in the County of Haddington (1881), all but the last in the Peerage of Scotland. As Baron Tweeddale in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, Lord Tweeddale sat between 1881 and 1963 in the House of Lords. The Marquess's eldest son uses Viscount Walden as a courtesy title.

Stephen George Platten, FSA is a retired Anglican bishop. He was the last diocesan Bishop of Wakefield in the Church of England. He was consecrated in this role on 19 July 2003 and immediately prior to that was Dean of Norwich from 1995. He was installed at Wakefield Cathedral on 19 July 2003.

Jennifer Rhodes is an American actress whose career spans four decades.

Tonia is a Belgian singer, best known for her participation in the 1966 Eurovision Song Contest.

Karen Moustgaard Jespersen is a Danish journalist and former politician representing the party Venstre.

Oscar Urbina Ortega is a Colombian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the second and current Archbishop of Villavicencio.

Jean-Pierre Garnier is a French businessman, and a former Chief Executive of GlaxoSmithKline.

Robert David Levin is an American classical pianist, musicologist and composer, and is the artistic director of the Sarasota Music Festival.

Jan Garbarek is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist, who is also active in classical music and world music.